Suspect Indicted in Double Murder; Fugitive Captured in Operation North Star

July 7, 2022 – A Memphis fugitive charged in the 2020 shootings of four people in a car in East Memphis has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and other felony counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Trevon Harris, 22, was among 122 fugitive violent felons arrested in Operation North Star, a multi-agency 30-day roundup headed by the U.S. Marshals Service. The operation announced this week also included fugitive roundups in Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

Harris, who was arrested by the task force in June, has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. He is being held without bond. A second suspect is being sought.

The shootings occurred at around 11 p.m. on May 7, 2020, in the 4000 block of Barron Avenue just east of Getwell Road where a bullet-riddled car in which the victims’ were travelling had crashed into a parked vehicle.

Two passengers were found dead from multiple gunshot wounds, including Tyrell Jones, 15, and Steven Goggins, 18. Two other teens were taken to hospitals for treatment.

Investigators said the four teens were returning from a service station on Getwell near Rhodes Avenue when the driver noticed another vehicle closely following them with its headlights on high-beam.

The occupants of that vehicle then opened fire on the four teens, causing their vehicle to crash into a parked car. The shooting suspects then drove off at a high rate of speed.

The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Kirby May and by Asst. Dist. Atty. J. D. Hamblen of the District Attorney’s Vertical Prosecution Team 5 which prosecutes cases in General Sessions Division 13 and Criminal Court Division 9.